Jul 28, 2016
Taking gender markers off of single-stall restrooms is a NO-BRAINER. So happy that @ourrestroom met their funding goal and will be working toward this mission!
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Taking gender markers off of single-stall restrooms is a NO-BRAINER. So happy that @ourrestroom met their funding goal and will be working toward this mission!
WE DID IT!! OUR Restroom is a real thing, because of you.
Last night we completed our fundraising campaign and exceeded our goal by over $300, and we are so, so excited! We cannot thank you all enough for your support of this work, and for your belief in and commitment to creating safer spaces for people of all genders.
This success will affect real, actual changes in businesses across this country and, eventually, throughout the world. What’s more, seeing the capacity to fundraise for this initiative signals how many of us are ready for these changes, are aware of the need for collective, driven work to ensure that they happen.
Stay tuned (you can follow us here on Tumblr, as well as on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!) as we work this month to launch our website, and as we begin to do outreach to more & more OUR Restroom ambassadors!
HELL YES!
Come hang with Jenny & I, for free on the internet!
Seems like a great time to tell you that tomorrow (Saturday, 7/23) from 12-2:30pm PST, Jenny and I will be hanging out live on the Internet, playing music and chatting with some of our friends (like @malblum & @vivekshraya)!!
We will be celebrating the last day of the @ourrestroom campaign! It will be funnnn and free AND I promise to play glockenspiel. ✌🏻️
Join us using this inventive bitly I made: bit.ly/JennyOwenTubs 🛁
From the team behind Everyone Is Gay, OUR Restroom is making it easier for businesses to let people of every gender do their business in comfort.
Thank you, UpWorthy!!! Two days and 4K to go!! LET’S DO THIS!
OUR Restroom’s First Ambassador: Craft Beer Cellars!
Well, OUR Restroom has its very first ambassador, before the campaign has even ended! The incredible humans at Craft Beer Cellars in Los Angeles, CA, had us come in to talk to them about the importance of taking their gendered signs down... and immediately said, “Hell yes.”
Corissa, one of the two owners of the craft beer retail store & bar, explained, “We want this to feel like a home away from home, and for that to be possible, everyone has to feel comfortable and safe.”
On top of all of that, we were fortunate enough to have the incredible Molly Adams volunteer her time to document this awesome occasion. Craft Beer Cellars now has two unisex restrooms, and OUR Restroom signs up in their store to let all their patrons know why they made this important change.
To learn more about our work, and to help support in our final days, head over to OURrestroom.com
Alert: THE POSTER FOR OUR RESTROOM IS MY FAVORITE THINGS OF ALL TIME.
Look at this beautiful work of art that Allison Weiss put together I CAN’T STAND IT, ugh it’s perfect. Anyway hello, there are just 2 1/2 days left to help support our campaign to take gender off single-stall restrooms, and we just added a new level that lets you grab up this here poster so check it outtttttt.
OUR Means All Of Us. OURrestroom.com
SIGNAL BOOST: OUR Restroom is a project to educate business owners about the importance of gender-neutral, single-stall bathroom.
The acronym stands for One Unisex Restroom, and it’s a brilliant (and common-sense) concept: single-stall bathrooms in restaurants and businesses shouldn’t be gendered. Period. There’s just no point. From the campaign page:
There are countless people whose lives would be made more comfortable by establishments that provide all-gender bathrooms, including: transgender or gender nonconforming people who may risk unsafe or uncomfortable confrontations by entering a gendered bathroom, parents/caretakers whose children may be a different gender than they are, people whose caregivers may be a different gender than them, etc. As a matter of fact, many cities have adopted laws saying that single stall bathrooms must be gender neutral.
Changing a single stall, single occupancy bathroom into a unisex, all-gender, or gender neutral bathroom requires NO additional construction and NO paperwork, aside from a new bathroom sign. For many customers, nothing will change – they will still use this bathroom one at a time. But for many others, this change will greatly impact the discomfort or comfort experienced when using that business’ facilities.
Kristin Russo of @everyoneisgay is one of the masterminds behind this, so you know it’s going to be good. There are only a few days left of the crowdfunding campaign, so if you can, donate or spread the word to help the project get off the ground! Check out the Indiegogo campaign here.
The Restroom Sessions: Three Days Left!
In support of the OUR Restroom campaign to take gender markers off of single-stall restrooms, several musicians are coming together to create a digital music compilation of acoustic covers... recorded in their bathrooms!!
Artists on the ever-expanding compilation include Ingrid Michaelson, Greg Holden, Allison Weiss, Jenny Owen Youngs, Vivek Shraya, Mal Blum, Bells Roar, Kid in the Attic, Koji, Modern Huge, Skylar Kergil, Tim Barry, Austin Lucas, and Little Waist!
You can support OUR Restroom and get The Restroom Sessions here on Indiegogo, or by visiting OURrestroom.com!